[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer without OSD

[John Brown]

bayrouni <bayrouni <at> brutele.be> writes:

> 
> John Brown wrote:
> > bayrouni <bayrouni <at> brutele.be> writes:
> > 
> >> And I tried both copying a truetype font to ~/.mplayer/ and creating a 
> >> soft link to /usr/share/fonts/some_truetype_font.ttf.
> >>
> >> I tried also the -font option on the command line.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I just tried svn 23059 and it is working as usual. Are you sure that you
copied
> > the TrueType font to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf?
> > 
> > Can you post the output of mplayer -v <filename>?
> 
> of course and thank you:
> 
> (it seems mplayer is searching for desc file not ttf file !!!
> 
> mplayer gladiator.vob -v
> 
> output:

[output cut]

That's strange. 

My verbose output:

Starting playback...
[cut]
*** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 640x480x12bpp YUV planar,
460800 bytes
A:   0.0 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.040 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
*** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 640x480x12bpp YUV planar,
460800 bytes
get_path('subfont.ttf') ->
'c:/progra~1/multimedia/mplayer/svn/mplayer/subfont.ttf'
Unicode font: 1418 glyphs.
A:   0.1 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.009 ct:  0.000   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0

You do not have the "get_path('subfont.ttf')" in your output. I think that
your MPlayer was not compiled with support for freetype, even though you
--enabled-freetype. Check configure.log to see if it found freetype.